What if you had to explain to a child why the moon doesn't fall to the earth? What would you say? To refine (or confirm) your ideas, you can play with the simulation and watch the video below. Be sure you can relate these two examples to each other and to what you've learned in your physics class.
I. Horizontally Launched Projectiles
If you pointed a gun horizontally in one hand and a bullet in the other, and shot the bullet and dropped the bullet at the same time, which would hit the ground first? Use the simulation below to investigation this situation. What ideas and demonstrations discussed in your physics class relate to this situation?
True or False: The Moon is Falling (?)
What if you had to explain to a child why the moon doesn't fall to the earth? What would you say? To refine (or confirm) your ideas, you can play with the simulation and watch the video below. Be sure you can relate these two examples to each other and to what you've learned in your physics class.
I. Horizontally Launched Projectiles
If you pointed a gun horizontally in one hand and a bullet in the other, and shot the bullet and dropped the bullet at the same time, which would hit the ground first? Use the simulation below to investigation this situation. What ideas and demonstrations discussed in your physics class relate to this situation?II. Is the Moon Falling?